OT (ish): Crash test dummies...

2009-09-30 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hurro folks, I'm looking for some crash-test dummies to test a website of sorts. It's a link-shrinker/bookmarking service. There is no point, it's a 'because I can' project that I started ages ago and got keep about recently. Ideally testers would be people who are into twitter, facebook etc

Re: Couples to test 'intimacy' device

2009-04-24 Thread David Lowe
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM, yuri yur...@gmail.com wrote: Aidan Gauland wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Couples in long distance relationships are being sought to try out a prototype device designed to communicate intimacy from their bedrooms. Hands up, those of you who are

Re: Couples to test 'intimacy' device

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Couples in long distance relationships are being sought to try out a prototype device designed to communicate intimacy from their bedrooms.

Re: Couples to test 'intimacy' device

2009-04-23 Thread Aidan Gauland
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Couples in long distance relationships are being sought to try out a prototype device designed to communicate intimacy from their bedrooms. Hands up, those of you who are wondering if this thing is scriptable!

Re: Couples to test 'intimacy' device

2009-04-23 Thread yuri
Aidan Gauland wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Couples in long distance relationships are being sought to try out a prototype device designed to communicate intimacy from their bedrooms. Hands up, those of you who are wondering if this thing is scriptable! /me raises hand. Yuri

Couples to test 'intimacy' device

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings, Couples in long distance relationships are being sought to try out a prototype device designed to communicate intimacy from their bedrooms. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8004769.stm They talk about 100 miles as being long distance. I think we have

Test message - Please ignore!

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Sands
Hi, If you didn't read the subject and chose to read this message it contains nothing of any real interest. Just testing if my sending address is accepted now with a change of subscription address to the mailing list. cheers, Andrew

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread John Mallett
On Saturday 20 December 2008 15:29:24 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:11:34 +1300 John Mallett mall...@actrix.co.nz wrote: test 64 bit FC10 and KDE eh?? What's it like (: Steve It is not to bad. Quite similar to FC9. Very easy to install especially when you have broadband

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:25:23 +1300 John Mallett wrote: User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) it's in your mail headers :-) John

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread Nick Rout
Hello my name is Steve. I'm an addict. Every day I check the headers on all my email to see what operating systems my friends are using. I subscribe to 127 mailing lists to feed my habit. I wake at 2.00 am to keep up with the checking. On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:40 PM, John Rye

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread John Mallett
That's the kind of dedication that we all need for linux. Oh! and mail checking as well On Sunday 21 December 2008 10:36:01 Nick Rout wrote: Hello my name is Steve. I'm an addict. Every day I check the headers on all my email to see what operating systems my friends are using. I subscribe

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
Ssh, don't tell everyone (: Actually I'm even worse than usual at the moment, as I'm trying to get my mail server to deliver regularly, first time, to xtra addresses. So, I'm trying to get SPF, DKIM, and loads of other acronyms working properly. Sadly, even these fail when connected to one of

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread don
Did you see my NZNog post Steve? Did you get my phone call? Cheers Don Steve Holdoway wrote: Ssh, don't tell everyone (: Actually I'm even worse than usual at the moment, as I'm trying to get my mail server to deliver regularly, first time, to xtra addresses. So, I'm trying to get SPF,

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:50:06 +1300 d...@bowenvale.co.nz wrote: Did you see my NZNog post Steve? Did you get my phone call? Cheers Don Yes I did thanks Don. -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz

test

2008-12-19 Thread John Mallett
test

Re: test

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:11:34 +1300 John Mallett mall...@actrix.co.nz wrote: test 64 bit FC10 and KDE eh?? What's it like (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz

Test message - Please ignore and delete

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Sands
Hi, Apologies, but I was having difficulties sending email to the list. Testing actions with this message. Regards, Andrew

Test message - Please ignore

2007-12-29 Thread Andrew Sands
Test message, Please ignore. Checking if my email is getting to list. Andrew

Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, I was at a conference in chicago (www.cluecon.com) and one of the presenters there asked a question: Is the following line of code legal? 2[abcde]; Answer to come, after any discussion.. Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2007-07-01T21:28:35+1200, Derek Smithies wrote: Is the following line of code legal? 2[abcde]; Sure. There's nothing surprising about it, either. Read the section on array subscripting in the standard to see why. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Looks valid to me, but the real question is why anyone would ever want to? It would take a pretty disgruntled employee to leave stuff like that for their successor (: Well, they wouldn't write code like that if they had to maintain it themselves, would they? Steve On Sun, 01 Jul 2007

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Stephen Irons
Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, I was at a conference in chicago (www.cluecon.com) and one of the presenters there asked a question: Is the following line of code legal? 2[abcde]; Answer to come, after any discussion.. Derek. C FAQ, question 6.11

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Is the following line of code legal? 2[abcde]; Not for anyone caring about legibility. The string inside the [] translates into a pointer to an array of char. Pointers as array index aren't right, there should be an offset from the base pointer of the array, so I'd say, not legal. The 2 is

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Well, it comes from the management of the square braces. 2[abcde]; is equivalent to (from the compilers point of view) to *(2 + abcde); which is *(abcde + 2); which is the character 'c'; which is definately legal. There was general agreement from the discussion on this code that

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Kerry Mayes
Is this actually a trick question? Is it valid in C to have a line of code that just evaluates to b? What sort of statement is that? I can cope with (if I've got the correct assignment operator): x = 2[abcde]; but not: 2[abcde]; But I haven't programmed in C since 1990. Kerry.

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2007-07-02T12:11:14+1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: Is this actually a trick question? Is it valid in C to have a line of code that just evaluates to b? What sort of statement is that? Yup, it's perfectly legal. If you compile with warnings enabled or check the source with a lint-like tool,

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:28:35 +1200, Derek Smithies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2[abcde] === abcde[2] == 'c' Rex -- Eschew Obfuscation.

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 02/07/07, Derek Smithies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, think carefully. I would suggest that almost any language allows you to make spaghetti. I have started to codegolf (codegolf.com) in python. Despite python's reputation for clarity, you can get some good gnarliness with a bit of

Test message - Please ignore

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Sands
Test message - Please ignore. Sorry, I'm receiving list messages but was checking ability to send? Andrew

Re: test msg 2 c if a moderator or my isp is spooling my posts

2006-11-19 Thread Ross Drummond
On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:49, Rik Tindall wrote: feel free 2 bounce this one / is linux-users[AT]it.canterbury.ac.nz a moderated list? cheers, rik Some comments; Rick , the timestamp from your email client implies that the message was created before it was processed by the mail servers. I

Re: test msg 2 c if a moderator or my isp is spooling my posts

2006-11-19 Thread Don Gould
Thanks for this heads up Ross, I've had a number of messages delayed going to different places recently. It never occured to me. Cheers Don Ross Drummond wrote: On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:49, Rik Tindall wrote: feel free 2 bounce this one / is linux-users[AT]it.canterbury.ac.nz a moderated

Re: test msg 2 c if my isp is spooling my posts

2006-11-19 Thread Rik Tindall
Don Gould wrote: Thanks for this heads up Ross, I've had a number of messages delayed going to different places recently. It never occured to me. Ross Drummond wrote: Some comments; Rick , the timestamp from your email client implies that the message was created before it was processed

test msg 2 c if a moderator or my isp is spooling my posts

2006-11-18 Thread Rik Tindall
feel free 2 bounce this one / is linux-users[AT]it.canterbury.ac.nz a moderated list? cheers, rik

PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Don Gould
Save: ?= $_POST[Save]? Gives me: Save: Notice: Undefined index: Save in /var/www/html/o/MACOwner.php on line 15 Clearly I need to test that it's defined first. How do I do that in php? Cheers Don -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:10, Don Gould wrote: Save: ?= $_POST[Save]? Gives me: Save: Notice: Undefined index: Save in /var/www/html/o/MACOwner.php on line 15 Clearly I need to test that it's defined first. How do I do that in php? Cheers Don There is a NZ PHP users group

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Nicholas Rogers
Don, I can recommend 2 excellent books: PHP in 10 Minutes by SAMS publishing. Succinct, fast and $cheap. It will answer most of your fundamental PHP questions with minimum fuss. 2. PHP and MyQL Web Development, Welling Thomson, 3rd Edition, Developers Library This is the best tutorial

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Don Gould
Thanks Hads... I'm on that list to. Cheers Don Hadley Rich wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:10, Don Gould wrote: Save: ?= $_POST[Save]? Gives me: Save: Notice: Undefined index: Save in /var/www/html/o/MACOwner.php on line 15 Clearly I need to test that it's defined first. How do

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Don Gould
actually go to 'do it' that I realise I don't know how to do something... For example, it just never occured to me that I'd have to test the _POST(x). In ASP if you use a request(x) that doesn't exist it just ignores you. Not that this makes ASP any better, it's just different. So as I

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:23, Nicholas Rogers wrote: Don, I can recommend 2 excellent books: PHP in 10 Minutes by SAMS publishing. Succinct, fast and $cheap. It will answer most of your fundamental PHP questions with minimum fuss. 2. PHP and MyQL Web Development, Welling Thomson,

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Don Gould
ruby rant... last week it was 'Perl is your friend'... :) Actually Chris, I got a book out on Ruby last week and found it wasn't the right book (Ruby on Rails), and I got a book out on Perl as well. Let's get a reality check here for a second... Most of the *nix language use the same

Re: PHP How To: Test a post var...

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
But the power of php is not in the code, it's in the support libraries that are already written. So without pear, you might as well use a proper language like C. Steve On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:05:11 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:23,

Re: test WAS Nick's problem...

2006-10-08 Thread Nick Rout
Sorry, but to check whether Steve's solution works, i really have to test it! On 10/6/2006, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:00:28 +1300 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've stuck with roundcube, after a suggestion from a lister a while back

Re: test WAS Nick's problem...

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:06:09 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but to check whether Steve's solution works, i really have to test it! On 10/6/2006, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:00:28 +1300 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL

Re: test WAS Nick's problem...

2006-10-08 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/9/2006, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope! - it's sending \n\n so we could single them up... //else, send message $message = str_replace(\r\n, \n, $message); $message = str_replace(\n\n, \n, $message); $message = str_replace(\r\n.\r\n,

http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Don Gould
I'd like to set up my server to run a speed test every half hour so I can graph performance. Does anyone know or a linux system that will do this for me? Download Speed: 1091 kbps (136.4 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3 KB/sec transfer rate) That's my 3.5mbit link! Cheers

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Neil Stockbridge
you could: 1. find a speed test that doesn't require flash or java 2. use wget to run the speed test from a cron job 3. parse the results from the document wget downloaded 4. use grace to make charts in the web server document root your grace script might look like this: [ #!/bin/sh USE=$0

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/4/2006, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up my server to run a speed test every half hour so I can graph performance. Does anyone know or a linux system that will do this for me? Download Speed: 1091 kbps (136.4 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Don Gould wrote: I'd like to set up my server to run a speed test every half hour so I can graph performance. Does anyone know or a linux system that will do this for me? Download Speed: 1091 kbps (136.4 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3 KB/sec transfer rate

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Don Gould
Nick Rout wrote: Those are pretty typical speeds from what I understand. I also understand that the quoted 3.5M is _not_ guaranteed. ...and never delivered?! -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - SkypeMe:

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Don Gould
Glynn Foster wrote: Download Speed: 1360 kbps (170 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3 KB/sec transfer rate) If 1.5mbit is all they're going to delivery for $49 while they quote 3.5 then I think I should pay them the for the percentage they deliver. Sounds fair to me. Cheers

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 05 October 2006 12:11, Don Gould wrote: Download Speed: 1360 kbps (170 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3 KB/sec transfer rate) If 1.5mbit is all they're going to delivery for $49 while they quote 3.5 then I think I should pay them the for the percentage they

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:44:18 +1200 Andrew Errington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we all agree that if we are *all* going to check and log the speed that we do it at different times... Andrew I'd say exactly the opposite, personally (: Steve

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thursday 05 October 2006 09:33, Nick Rout wrote: On 10/4/2006, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Download Speed: 1091 kbps (136.4 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 130 kbps (16.3 KB/sec transfer rate) That's my 3.5mbit link! Those are pretty typical speeds from what I understand. I

Re: http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/module-Speedtest.phtml Speed test for Linux...

2006-10-04 Thread Don Gould
Andrew Errington wrote: Can we all agree that if we are *all* going to check and log the speed that we do it at different times... Yes, I've been giving this some thought. I'm going to look into a solution a bit further. Neil posted some good code last night, I think it would be a really

OT: test of mailserver change

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Brorens
Quick test to see whether it's now safe to set Out of Office at my end. If not I'll change to gmail completly for the list. - steve

Re: memory test application

2006-02-19 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, thanks to Simon Knight, and Matthew Gregan who replied offlist with some pointers. Matthew pointed out that the created threads were not being cleaned up properly. I had to either detach the threads, or do a pthread_join of the thread. With that change, the test program ran a lot better

memory test application

2006-02-12 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, I have been having some memory errors in a C++ program, which has been run on my quad cpu box here (FC1). It has been complaining about errors in malloc_consolidate. Nasty stuff this, whats going on. So, I cut it down to the minimum, wrote a test application. compiled with: gcc -g -o

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-14 Thread Matias Rollan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:49:59PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Now, how do i turn a url like: http://server.com/path/to/sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz into just the filename like this: sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat urls

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-14 Thread Carl Cerecke
Perl is unnecessary for this. There is the basename utility: basename http://server.com/path/to/sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz yields sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz or, for the full functionality of the perl script: for f in $(cat urls); do basename $f; done Sources.bz2 Packages.bz2

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-14 Thread Matias Rollan
Hola ! On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 03:50:25PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: Perl is unnecessary for this. There is the basename utility: Yes, I agree but it was about giving and reading the different options :) I prefer this to the perl line-noise incantation :-) heh I like the noise. The same base

how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Rout
in bash, I thought it was something like: if [ test -f /path/to/blah ] ; then but I get: line 46: [: -f: binary operator expected -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Matias Rollan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:34:07PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: in bash, I thought it was something like: if [ test -f /path/to/blah ] ; then but I get: line 46: [: -f: binary operator expected [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ if [ -f /etc/passwd ] ; then echo si; fi si [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ if test -f

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Rout
thought it was something like: if [ test -f /path/to/blah ] ; then but I get: line 46: [: -f: binary operator expected [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ if [ -f /etc/passwd ] ; then echo si; fi si [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ if test -f /etc/passwd; then echo si; fi si Hope it helps

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:49:59 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, thanks Now, how do i turn a url like: http://server.com/path/to/sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz into just the filename like this: sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz file=`echo $url | sed 's?^.*/??'` Steve

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Rout
I thought of that, but what if the url is: http://server.com/longer/annoying/path/to/sourcefile.2.3.4.tar.bz In other words, if the length of the path is unpredictable :( On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:56:29 +1300 David Mann wrote: Use cut with a specified delimiter, eg: echo

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:00:35PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: http://server.com/longer/annoying/path/to/sourcefile.2.3.4.tar.bz $ basename http://server.com/longer/annoying/path/to/sourcefile.2.3.4.tar.bz sourcefile.2.3.4.tar.bz

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:59:42 +1300 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:49:59 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, thanks Now, how do i turn a url like: http://server.com/path/to/sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz into just the filename like this:

Re: Thanks, now another quick one...WAS how to test for the presence of a file?

2005-12-13 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:05, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:59:42 +1300 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:49:59 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent, thanks Now, how do i turn a url like: http://server.com/path/to/sourcefile-2.3.4.tar.bz

Re: Java/Javascript [was Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS]

2005-10-30 Thread Richard Tindall
Hadley Rich wrote: No it wasn't. The last speaker didn't mention it at all (mostly javascript), So there's a difference? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX ? Between Java and Javascript? Yes. hads Where I went wrong was believing Philip Lindsay's AJAX slide had read

Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS

2005-10-27 Thread Richard Tindall
Nick Rout wrote: Another plug I know, but I can also say that i've only been able to get most media to play since I used gentoo. A noteworthy corollary from last night's NZCS meeting: The hyper-informed Chris Noel (tho unknown to CLUG; I have yet to master an umlaut e in Lnx, sorry), spoke

Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS

2005-10-27 Thread Joshua Collins
On 10/28/05, Richard Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote:Another plug I know, but I can also say that i've only been able to get most media to play since I used gentoo.A noteworthy corollary from last night's NZCS meeting:The hyper-informed Chris Noel (tho unknown to CLUG; ... He was

Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 28/10/05, Richard Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overall, the meeting was _very_ strong on Java. No it wasn't. The last speaker didn't mention it at all (mostly javascript), and the second speaker barely touched it (mostly python), if at all. The other two were Java-heavy - but they

Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS

2005-10-27 Thread Richard Tindall
Carl Cerecke wrote: Overall, the meeting was _very_ strong on Java. No it wasn't. The last speaker didn't mention it at all (mostly javascript), So there's a difference? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX Volker was there. He took notes. He could give a more accurate summary.

Java/Javascript [was Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS]

2005-10-27 Thread Hadley Rich
On Friday 28 October 2005 13:06, Richard Tindall wrote: No it wasn't. The last speaker didn't mention it at all (mostly javascript), So there's a difference? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX ? Between Java and Javascript? Yes. hads -- Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what

Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS

2005-10-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 28/10/05, Richard Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Cerecke wrote: Overall, the meeting was _very_ strong on Java. No it wasn't. The last speaker didn't mention it at all (mostly javascript), So there's a difference? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX Follow the Javascript

Re: test / FreeBSD .mpg

2005-10-26 Thread Richard Tindall
as the backend for Totem - out of the box - FreeBSD plays the test mpg Ubuntu doesn't. So you have been helpful in showing what makes the difference, so that Ubuntu's gstreamer can be tweaked up to FreeBSD's delivery standard. Before this, the solution I have found and passed onto others

Re: test / FreeBSD .mpg

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Rout
want to install arts. The point of the exercise is to find out where the most useable given solutions most readily are. With gstreamer as the backend for Totem - out of the box - FreeBSD plays the test mpg Ubuntu doesn't. So you have been helpful in showing what makes the difference, so

Re: test / FreeBSD CD mount + .mpg

2005-10-24 Thread Nick Rout
the Ubuntu 5.04 version did not (until Xine substituted in). Will test Ubuntu 5.10 asap. which videoclips did not play with ubuntu and what codecs did they use? there's a short of 'Revolution O/S' on the SFD'04 OpenCD: REV_OS_trailer.mpg it runs with totem/xine (but not totem

Re: test / FreeBSD CD mount + .mpg

2005-10-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:56:05 +1300 Richard Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That worked, i can confirm that the FreeBSD 5.4 Totem with Gstreamer does play video clips as packaged, where the Ubuntu 5.04 version did not (until Xine substituted in). Will test Ubuntu 5.10 asap. which

Re: test / FreeBSD CD mount + .mpg

2005-10-21 Thread Richard Tindall
the Ubuntu 5.04 version did not (until Xine substituted in). Will test Ubuntu 5.10 asap. Later, Rik

Re: test / FreeBSD CD mount

2005-10-20 Thread Richard Tindall
Andrew Turner wrote: Try mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom ah! -t I'll try that again then. Thanks Andrew. The FreeBSD mount will assume you are mounting a UFS file system. When the super block is incorrect it complains. Devices on FreeBSD are automatically created and deleted with devfs.

test / FreeBSD CD mount

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Tindall
Hi folks, Is there some reason I am unable to.. P3-600-FreeBSD# mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd0 on /cdrom: incorrect super block It's a Linux CD, 2 tried so far. Have been able to play a music CD already, installed from the drive (it's good). Is there a /dev/?(music) to be deleted?

Re: test / FreeBSD CD mount

2005-10-19 Thread Andrew Turner
Richard Tindall wrote: Hi folks, Is there some reason I am unable to.. P3-600-FreeBSD# mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom/ mount: /dev/acd0 on /cdrom: incorrect super block Try mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom The FreeBSD mount will assume you are mounting a UFS file system. When the super block is

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Richard Tindall
Nick Rout wrote: now it is wrong again: As expected, but why then does this line look correct? On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:18 +, Richard Tindall wrote: what part of the gentoo instructions *did* you actually follow? Which answer do you want, the obvious one - it's working, isn't it? - or

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Richard Tindall wrote: Wed May 11 17:15:06 UTC 2005 bash-2.05b$ date Please tell me what's wrong with this; it doesn't say GMT. UTC *is* GMT.

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Col
may have word wrapped ) As a test I created a link to somewhere that doesn't exist, it flashed red. Col.

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 18:03 +, Richard Tindall wrote: As expected, but why then does this line look correct? On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:18 +, Richard Tindall wrote: ^ it doesn't look right Rik, your whole post is based on it being right, but it is

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Richard Tindall
From my rc.conf, unamended (thanks Col, getting there.. ): # Set CLOCK to UTC if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as # Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then set CLOCK # to local. This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/clock script. #CLOCK=UTC = original

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Richard Tindall
* -l snip lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root36 May 12 07:13 localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland Now to reboot, I guess. Next test should be right. Thanks for the pointers guys. Just misunderstood instructions. Cheers, Rik -- Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-11 Thread Richard Tindall
Nick Rout wrote: finally make sure the clock run script is set to run on boot: rc-update add clock boot bash-2.05b# rc-update add clock boot * clock already installed in runlevel boot; skipping reboot Cheers. bash-2.05b$ /sbin/hwclock -r hwclock is unable to get I/O port access: the iopl(3)

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Richard Tindall
Robert Fisher wrote: Rik, I know it has been said before but it seems that you are past the install stage so Gentoo should be soo easy for you now. Not really. The tweaks involve reading thought time I often don't have. So I'll stick with Ububtu by default (it runs all devices the best

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Richard Tindall
Steve Holdoway wrote: ... would nearly be an acceptable answer? (: My desktop has 10 May, 18:xxpm showing.. But Mozilla mail Inbox lists incoming as 12 hours earlier (eg 6.xx). Oops! Sorry, back when it's fixed.. Thanks for warning me. Rik -- Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
Richard Tindall wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: Rik, I know it has been said before but it seems that you are past the install stage so Gentoo should be soo easy for you now. Not really. The tweaks involve reading thought time I often don't have. So I'll stick with Ububtu by default (it runs

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:21, Richard Tindall wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: ... would nearly be an acceptable answer? (: My desktop has 10 May, 18:xxpm showing.. But Mozilla mail Inbox lists incoming as 12 hours earlier (eg 6.xx). please can you tell us the o/p of the following

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:21, Richard Tindall wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: ... would nearly be an acceptable answer? (: My desktop has 10 May, 18:xxpm showing.. But Mozilla mail Inbox lists incoming as 12 hours earlier (eg 6.xx). please can you tell

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:18, Steve Holdoway wrote: .. isn't there an emerge ntpdate or ntpd available? Yes there is. See... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41099 -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) FishNet Computer Services www.fisher.net.nz

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:38, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:18, Steve Holdoway wrote: .. isn't there an emerge ntpdate or ntpd available? Yes there is. See... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41099 But the problem with that is that it just masks the problem,

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Richard Tindall
Cheers Chris, I will have to reply on Gentoo, from earlier in the thread; it's starting now.. Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2005 06:21, Richard Tindall wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: ... would nearly be an acceptable answer? (: please can you tell us the o/p of the

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Richard Tindall
Here tis Chris, Steve Holdoway wrote: ...clock's still wrong, though (: bash-2.05b$ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2 Apr 9 13:35 /etc/localtime - NZ [NB /etc/localtime NZ are flashing in a red block] bash-2.05b$ /sbin/hwclock -r hwclock is unable to get I/O port access: the

Re: test #2 from gentooland

2005-05-10 Thread Nick Rout
Rik, that is looking fine now: On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:07 +1200, Richard Tindall wrote: Cheers Chris, I will have to reply on Gentoo, from earlier in the thread; it's starting now.. Having spoken with you and Caleb at CLUG, I'm reminded that all of my clock problems have been on KDE -

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